In California, the Bank has issued nine dead whales

Almost half of the whales died because of hunger. A number of deaths among whales called anomaly.

In California, nearly two months nine marine mammals were found dead in the Bay area of San Francisco. This series of deaths, which, according to experts, was caused mainly by the impacts of boats or malnutrition – the phenomenon unusual. This writes the Washington Post.

“It’s very unusual. A normal year is when we have one to three [dead] gray whales per season. It’s already three times more, and in just two months,” said Padraig Duignan, principal investigator-medical examiner’s marine mammal Center.

It was found that four of the nine deaths of whales, which were counted and examined by the marine mammal Center, was caused by malnutrition, while as three others were caused by the blows of the whales on ships.

It is assumed that the collision with the ship killed and a fourth whale, and the ninth cause of death of the animal, detected 30 April and was not installed.

According to Duignan, biologists see an alarming trend of depletion of gray whales up and down the coast this year.

It is known that in the state of Washington since April at the state beaches have made 13 dead gray whales. It is assumed that the famine also played a role in these deaths.

1/2: The Marine Mammal Center confirms a dead gray whale washed ashore early this morning at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Our scientists & partners plan to perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy, tomorrow in an attempt to determine the cause of death. 📸 Credit Sarah Maria Curran pic.twitter.com/6sDhSnhz8H

— The Marine Mammal Center (@TMMC) on may 6, 2019.

“The hypothesis is that last summer these whales were in Alaska, and they either had to travel or there was not enough production to get enough fat for migration,” – said the expert.

Earlier it was reported that near the Florida cub endangered whale was spotted for the first time in two years

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